The Coptic Michaelides papyri have been digitised cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/...

The next History of Liturgy Seminar is in London @ihr.bsky.social on Monday 16 Feb 17.30. The award-winning @drkrisztinailko.bsky.social on The Augustinian Friars & their Liturgical Cult of Saint Augustine. In-person (chat! drinks! people!) or online: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #medievalsky

All welcome to our next research seminar. Elaine Treharne (Stanford) on handwriting, women scribes, digital tools and manuscripts. 10 February 5.30 pm GMT, Laidlaw Library (hybrid). To register: forms.office.com/e/iP5qRb5GSk #medieval #manuscripts #palaeography #digitalhumanities

Save the date! At Evensong on Thursday 5 March, the Cathedral will be formally receiving the Bury Psalter, which has been gifted by the King Edward VI Grammar School Foundation Trust. Dating from around 1400, it was used at the ancient Abbey of St Edmund. Everyone is welcome at this special service

Such great news for @stedscath.bsky.social

I'm hugely excited about the return of the Bury Psalter to @stedscath.bsky.social; the donation of the manuscript to the Cathedral means that it can stay in Bury. Along with the Bury Chronicle at Moyse's Hall Museum it's one of only two of the Abbey's books that remain in the town they were made for

just brilliant.

🎇Job Klaxon!!🎇 Assistant Lectureship in Medieval Irish and Celtic Studies at Maynooth University (12-month contract). Application deadline 22 March 2026. Come work with us in the Department of Early Irish @ceilteachomn.bsky.social! my.corehr.com/pls/nuimrecr...

Re-upping this splendid Arts & Humanities PhD opportunity, because we really need some good news!

Coming soonish…

Beautiful 19th-century Indian mica paintings from Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, Southern India. Mica is a thin, transparent mineral with a glass-like surface. Pictured here are a Hujam, a barber, and his wife (1869). See the full set in the Cambridge Digital Library: https://loom.ly/V9BSC5I

Apparently I use Claude Code to build all the little apps I’ve wish for but never had the bandwidth to make—today it’s an "Out of Sorts" calculator for letterpress—paste or type the text you want to typeset & it shows how many of each character you’ll need in your case outofsorts.skeuomorphpress.org

Really fascinating…

First London Palaeography Seminar of 2026 coming up! Eyal Poleg, no less, speaking on 'The Science of Erasures' - Tuesday 3rd February, 5:30pm Senate House and online. To learn more and to register: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/...

And people wonder why Poland has misgivings about most of its neighbours.

Brilliant thread relevant to post-Roman Europe

CRASSH is inviting scholars from the Global South to apply for funded Visiting Fellowships in Cambridge in Spring 2027 The fellowship theme is 'Enslavement: histories, legacies and afterlives' ⏳ Apply by 16 Feb 2026 www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/global-south-fellowships

Provenance research needs RAG infrastructures with a human-in-the-loop to ensure scalability, interpretability, and ethical sensitivity. This paper shows how RAG enables multilingual search in the Getty Provenance Index. arxiv.org/abs/2508.19093 #DigitalHumanities #ProvenanceResearch #RAG

Join us on Tuesday, 3 February, 6-8pm at Senate House, London. Booking required. Free to attend. More details and booking form here: ies.sas.ac.uk/news-events/....

📜Bequest of the day📜 Royalist Sir Nicholas Crispe asks for an autopsy in his 1666 will: 'I would have my body opened that the Phisitiones may see the cause of my soe long shortnes of breath to be helpfull to my Posterity that are troubled with the same Infirmity'. #EarlyModern 🗃️

On this basis you should defund all sport, art, culture, museums, libraries: not everyone uses them so why should everyone pay? You could say the same about funding schools - we don't all have kids. Or you can accept that all of these things, including HE, have wider social benefits. I struggle....

As part of the @hips-project.bsky.social, PI Eyal Poleg speaking at IES…

Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1964. The headline and lede from The Daily Mirror:

In a new video game, players can join a heist crew to take back looted African artifacts from museums, but there’s even more at stake: Users must learn musical rhythms, consult elders, and participate in ceremonies to reactivate the social meaning of these objects.

📚 Some of our most historic collections for #LibraryShelfieDay! ⭐This part of our collection is known as the ‘Stars’, from the paper asterisks stuck on their spines. It contains the contents of the Library as it stood in 1714. Photo by @liamsims.bsky.social

Posting this - though the salary is not commensurate with the level of experience required and the responsibilities of the post - not to mention the cost of living in/commuting to London…

Very exciting job announcement! Permanent early medieval (Britain and/or Europe) teaching post at KCL. I know first-hand that this is a great opportunity to work with amazing colleagues and students. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/136727-...

Muy buena noticia que comparten mis queridos amigos del @irht-cnrs.bsky.social : A website dedicated to #GreekManuscripts in Terra d'Otranto (Southern Italy). Currently under development, but you can already find manuscript descriptions, links to images, digitized papers etc. #manuscritosGriegos

Love this - great way of showing how this kind of folding book actually worked.

Thank you @bucksarchives.bsky.social for the light relief - and myth-busting with archives.

Read how our team has been 'relighting' the surface of the Baskerville punches from different angles, revealing details like scratches, rust, and engraving marks that are invisible under normal lighting baskervillepunches.org/how-rti-reve...

In February 2026 @senatehouselib.bsky.social is seeking to appoint a Printer in Residence. This is to be an important part of the public engagement programme for the upcoming exhibition ‘The English Print Revolution: Caxton and Beyond’, and to provide a contemporary response to it in print. 1/3

On 5 February, our symposium 'Exploring Queerness in Natural History' will look at engaging LGBTQ+ audiences in nature, the challenges of researching queer figures in the history of science, and supporting staff. Tickets at buff.ly/Csfwc1U

Woah, this talk on carbon-dating woodblocks sounds so cool (and will be online!) caxtonclub.org/event-6477380

Reason to be a Special Collections librarian no. 43…

This is your reminder that Hungarian-Jewish scientist George de Hevesy dissolved two Nobel Prizes in aqua regia to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis. He then left the dissolved solution on his shelf and fled to Sweden. (After the war he un-dissolved the gold and the prizes were re-cast.)

Holy hell. The description of death row in apartheid South Africa was one of the most harrowing things I've ever read. Also. This guy wasn't fucking around.

We’re hiring a two-year DH postdoc for our HAVI project, to work on a new type of knowledge graph architecture for the humanities (and beyond). Deadline soon (18 Jan)! www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

On January 14–15, the Musée d’Histoire des sciences in Geneva will host the international conference “Beyond Books: Instruments and Knowledge in Libraries”, which we are co-organizing with Rossella Baldi, Samuel Gessner, and Laurence-Isaline Stahl Gretsch. Join us if you're around! Full program 👇

Really useful…

“Universal healthcare is not some utopian fantasy. It is Tuesday in Toronto. Affordable higher education is not an impossible dream. It is Wednesday in Berlin. Sensible gun regulation is not a violation of natural law. It is Thursday in London... There is another America inside this one.”

Personas of librarians and their response to AI - part 2. This is all tongue in cheek. substack.com/@aarontay/no...

This is a stunning resource, beautifully presented - congratulations to Ros Smith Kathy Acheson and their team emwmlibrary.com

FOI requests show that in 2024/2025, payments to individual finders & landowners for 'Treasure' rewards cost us £7,280,321.26 1/2 bigbookoftorcs.com/2026/01/11/t... #Archaeology #Treasure #Detecting 🏺

Adoption of artificial intelligence in academic libraries: A systematic review of current practices, challenges, and research opportunities www.sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #AI #libraries

This book claims to have been printed on the frozen River Thames in 1814 during the last of the great frost fairs! Frostiana, published by G. Davis in 1814 (Syn.7.81.93)

🚨Phd Position in #Digital #Medieval Manuscripts Studies You will be part of an international research project, applying innovative computational methods to the study of the transmission history of the Latin Physiologus and the Bestiary. 📍Radbout University (NL) 📆15 Jan 2026 ▶️ tinyurl.com/3wtcxpfc

Call now open for Visiting Fellowships in our Natural History Humanities programme! Building long-term collaborations with early career researchers on Cambridge GLAM collections. @camunivmuseums.bsky.social @theul.bsky.social @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social www.ccc.cam.ac.uk/initiatives/...